Michael Masnick (born December 8, 1974) is an American editor and entrepreneur. He is the CEO and founder of Techdirt, a

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. He coined the term "

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" on the Techdirt blog in January 2005 and was interviewed about it three years later on

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's ''

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''. In August 2024, he became part of the board of

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, a social media startup.

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Mike Masnick's Blog

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